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CVE-2003-0163

CVE information

Published

20 years ago

Last Modified

7 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

Description

decrypt_msg for the Gaim-Encryption GAIM plugin 1.15 and earlier does not properly validate a message length parameter, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a negative length, which overwrites arbitrary heap memory with a zero byte..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
5/10
Exploit Score
10/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
Partial
Integrity Impact
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:gaim-encryption:gaim-encryption:1.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:gaim-encryption:gaim-encryption:1.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:gaim-encryption:gaim-encryption:1.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -